Word: wings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...union hall, demanding passage of Goulart's broad and sweeping social and economic "reforms" (TIME, April 3). Far from cracking down on the mutineers for insubordination, Goulart's leftist Navy Minister gave them all weekend passes and full pardons. Newspapers, middle-road and right-wing politicians sensed that Goulart was bent on the swift formation of a socialist regime, and began a clamor of public protest...
Winning by a Wing. The FAA report rates Boeing's design first, but places Lockheed's a close second. North American finished out of the money. The experts' recommendations correspond closely to the airlines' choice. With the exception of Continental, which initially chose Lockheed first and North American second, the airlines picked Boeing first-but insisted that they nonetheless want Lockheed to continue in the competition. Boeing's design embodies a "variable sweep" wing that can be extended for takeoffs and landings and tucked back for supersonic flight. Because this is such a revolutionary wing...
Guns & Rosaries. When another group of sailors and marines marched off to join the rebels, navy officers intercepted them, finally opened up with machine guns, wounding three. In the midst of the rebellion, the left-wing marine commander resigned, later to be restored; then the conservative navy minister resigned, to be replaced by one of the navy's most outspoken leftists. The new minister meekly gave the mutinous servicemen full pardons and weekend passes. But for several tense hours, Rio was a trigger pull away from widespread violence-even civil...
...style. "He was a great storyteller and a great guy with the dolls," says Fred. "He didn't drown, as John has Leander doing in the book. He died sitting in a wing chair with a cup of tea by his side. We think he may have had a girl there with...
...hair turned grey at 22, giving him a half-century to play an all-purpose, Anglo-American Blimp-the lean, mean subspecies-in more than 100 plays and films, notably The Philadelphia Story (Hepburn's papa), The Iceman Cometh (the Boer War bore), sitting in so many stage wing chairs puffing Corona Coronas that he developed phlebitis, occupational ailment of English clubmen; of a heart attack; in Philadelphia...